Awards
Sue has received a number of accolades for her work.
- Shortlisted for the University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize 2019 – ‘At Moeraki’
- Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship 2020
- NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship 2018
- Longlisted for the University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize 2018 – ‘The Swim’
- Two poems commended in the 2018 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine – ‘Rx’ and ‘As it is on Earth’
- The Yield shortlisted for 2018 Ockham NZ Book Award for Poetry
- Strip longlisted for 2017 Ockham NZ Book Award for Fiction
- Shortlisted 2017 Landfall Essay Competition – ‘A Box of Bones’
- Winner Otago Regional Award in 2016 National Flash Fiction competition – ‘Calligraphy’
- Commended 2016 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine – ‘Admission’
- Winner 2015 Takahē Poetry Competition – ‘Calling’
- Runner-up 2015 Gwen Harwood Prize (Australia) – ‘Smeuse’
- Longlisted in 2015 University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s Prize – ‘The Yield’
- Winner 2015 Caselberg Trust International Poetry prize – ‘Luthier’
- Shared second prize in 2013 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine – ‘Wild’
- Winner 2013 Victorian Cancer Council Arts Award for poetry –‘Daffodils’
- Awarded the 2012 NZ Society of Authors Mid-Career Writers Grant.
- Winner 2011 New Zealand Poetry Society international poetry competition – ‘Ice Diver’
- Shortlisted for 2011 Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize for Creative Science Writing – ‘Icy Noctiluca’
- Winner 2010 Takahe international poetry competition – ‘Haunted’
- Runner-up in the 2009 and 2010 BNZ Katherine Mansfield short story competitions
- 2008 Robert Burns Fellow, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
- Winner in 2008 NZ Book Month ‘Six Pack Three’ competition – ‘Virtuoso’ (short story)
- Finalist in 2008 Takahe and 2008 Sunday Star Times short story competitions.
- Winner 2007 Inverawe (Tasmania, Australia) poetry competition –‘Temporal’
- First prize in both fiction and poetry sections of the 2006 Aoraki Literary Festival competition – ‘Weight’ (Fiction Prize) and ‘Breakfast with Raymond Carver’ (Poetry Prize)